History A-Level
Cultural Thaw
What Cultural Thaw means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Cultural Thaw
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Greater freedom of expression was allowed, permitting works like Solzhenitsyn's 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich', though this freedom remained strictly limited and subject to sudden reversals.
Topics that use Cultural Thaw
- 2T The Crisis of Communism: The USSR and the Soviet Empire, 1953–2000 (A-level only) – De-Stalinisation, 1953–1964 (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Collective leadership
- De-Stalinisation
- Decentralisation
- Economic centralisation
- Economic reform
- Leadership Style
- Party Bureaucracy
- Political Reform
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